A judge today slammed Britain's archaic laws which meant he could jail a passport fraudster for only 12 months.

Judge Patrick O’Mahony called on Parliament to pass tough new legislation as he sentenced a man caught making false passport applications designed to allow illegal immigrants to stay in the country.

Choudhury Kutubdin, 49, took cash for lying on seven separate applications over a nine-month period.

But no passports were ever issued as authorities spotted the scam, run between September 2002 and June 2003, and swooped to arrest the bearded defendant at his home, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard. ( @ 'bearded')

Kutubdin, a Muslim, went on to plead guilty to seven counts of making an untrue statement for the purposes of obtaining a passport.

Judge O’Mahony accepted that there was not a “sinister” motive behind the fraud, but said that he was “contrained” by Section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act of 1925, which meant the maximum sentence was is just two years.

That was reduced by half because Kutubdin has no previous convictions because he pleaded guilty.

“It is a matter of concern to me that the legislation that you fall to be sentenced under was passed in 1925 – times are very different now from 80 years ago. But the maximum sentence is still two years imprisonment.

“The passports were not obtained because you were found out. You were doing this for money, assisting people in this country who should not have passports. There is no evidence of a more serious or sinister motive.” (Aside from massing more muslim numbers for the restoration of the Islamic state of Great Britanistan and making money as a bonus )

The court heard that Kutubdin suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure ( ), but Judge O’Mahony decided there were no exceptional circumstances worthy of sparing him a jail term. ( )

“I conclude with regret to you that while it is right that you suffer unfortunate conditions, there are no exceptional circumstances in this case and so to prison you must go."

I can imagine that in 1925 making a fraudulent passport or fraudulently obtaining a passport wasn't that serious.

After all, in those times of common sense, a black person or a paki would have been looked on with suspicion and even ridiculed if he tried to pass himself off as a British citizen.

The definition of a Brit back then wasn't as open as it is now. If you weren't white you weren't British. If you had a foreign accent you weren't British.

The passort was a document used to travel out of the country, not to prove you belonged in the country. And was only really needed by the super wealthy.

Those passport laws should have been updated with the advent of international air travel, updated again with ex-colony immigration, and then updated again with the open borders immigration started in the 80s and is now permanent policy.